Altitude Film Entertainment
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Big Game
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
- Original title
- Big Game
- Language
- EN
- Country
- FI,DE,GB,US
- Budget
- $8,500,000
- Revenue
- $7,500,000
Filipe Manuel Neto
May 1, 2023 · via TMDB
**An American oddity made by Finns and set in Finland is still an American oddity.** Hollywood has already used us to films where the sacrosanct figure of the President of the USA is the target of the most barbaric attacks, bloodthirsty enemies and a thousand and one terrorist attacks. Frequently, the president is sufficiently capable of extricating himself, with the indispensable help of his military and secret agents. Sometimes, however, he becomes something of a damsel in distress. This type of film is very pleasant, especially for the American public, as it appeals to the most basic patriotism and often places the USA as a kind of pivot of the West, a great defender of democracies and champion of freedoms, ignoring all sorts of atrocities what the US has done against other countries to defend economic and political interests that have little to do with democracy or freedom. What this film does is essentially take one of these films and place it in Lapland, a region in Finland that ordinary people only know because it's the land where Santa Claus lives. And it could have been Santa Claus to come to the rescue of the troubled president... but this time, the life of the champion of freedom is in the hands of a Finnish child, armed with a bow and a quiver of arrows. A small hunter who knows the forests, the sounds of hunting, the techniques to survive, but who will have to face a group of armed men. As far as I know, it was the first Finnish film I saw, even though it is a co-production in which the USA bet a lot and which is almost entirely spoken in English. Directed by Jalmari Helander, a director who managed to go international and bring a bit of his country to the path of international cinema (we lack men like that in Portuguese cinema), it was a fun film that would have been better if it had more scenes in Finnish. I don't know if the majority of people in this country are fluent in English, like that boy, but such fluency in a foreign language – even if it is the most international language today – seems to me not very credible in such a young boy. And it would be good if this were the only unbelievable situation here, but unfortunately the film is full of moments where plausibility goes out the door. I liked the work of Samuel L. Jackson. He is an extremely competent actor for all sorts of action characters and has an extraordinary charisma that he puts to good use in the film. Despite not being, exactly, the protagonist, he assumes a certain protagonism in the story, not allowing himself to be captured without putting up a fight and without resistance, and establishing an excellent collaboration with the young actor Onni Tommila. The two actors are, to put it mildly, the only ones that deserve a special note. We can still add Ray Stevenson, but I felt several times that the actor seemed to be struggling with the material he was given, and Jim Broadbent doesn't have much to do here. The best thing about this movie is that it's fun to watch, especially for anyone who likes American-style over-the-top action movies. It's full of action scenes, exaggerated and heroic moments, and that makes it able to entertain us. Of course, that doesn't mean it's a good movie. It's not. It lacks intelligence, it lacks logic, it lacks scenes in which we are able to see the real Finland and not the French Alps, it lacks visual and special effects that are really credible and worthy of the name. Finally, it lacks a soundtrack that is less presumptuous and strident, and more harmonic. Sibelius probably revolved in his grave when he listened to this film's soundtrack.
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Samuel L. Jackson
US President William Alan Moore
Onni Tommila
Oskari
Ray Stevenson
Morris
Victor Garber
Vice President
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Hazar
Ted Levine
General Underwood
Jorma Tommila
Tapio
Risto Salmi
Hamara
Felicity Huffman
CIA Director
Jim Broadbent
Herbert
Rauno Juvonen
Safari Pilot
Jaymes Butler
Otis
Jean-Luc Julien
Clay
Erik Markus Schuetz
Stanley
Adrian Can
Hazar's Cameraman
Philipp Rafferty
Air Force One Pilot
Gabriel Raab
Afo Analyst 1
Murali Perumal
Pentagon Analyst 2
Ken Thomas
Navy Seal 1
Jörg Witte
Farmer
Can Aydin
Fight Choreographer
Jaymes Butler
Fight Choreographer
Torsten Jerabek
Stunt Coordinator
Can Aydin
Stunt Double
Jalmari Helander
Director
Mark Day
Additional Editing
Alex Garland
Executive Producer
Compton Ross
Executive Producer
Phil Hunt
Executive Producer
Marcus Loges
Production Executive
Stefano Marchetti
ADR Mixer
Heikki Kossi
Foley Supervisor
Olli Pärnänen
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jalmari Helander
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